Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-07-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

THERE are 1924 dram shops IL
the State of Missouri. OF this num-
Der /, 61S are in ST. Louis.
A TINsM1TH in the country has q sign
which reads: "Quart measures tall
shapes and sizes sold here"
CHERRIES and peaches are unusually
abundant this season IL the districts
bordering on the Hudson River.
A WICHITA (Kansas) paper states
that arrangements are being MADE
for g. 100000 packing house at
Wichita.
AN Austrian nobleman, whose for
tunes has disap 1eared, has had the
courage to open a green-grocer' store
In Vienna.
MOSQUITOES, according to recent
bulletin Of the United States Fish
Commission, are a deadly enemy to
brook trout.
Four railroads ere now being built
in Georgia to center at Atlanta. 1t
will then be the greatest railroad GEN.
ter in the South.
KANSAS boasts of having the tallest
man in this country, j. ID. Has
den. He Is seven feet, three and a
half inches high. He lives in Lakin.
KATE FIELD writes from Alaska
that sealskin sacques can be bought
$40 cheaper there than in New
York. Still it costs something to go to
Alaska.
THE benighted heather will not be
allowed to ''rage" forever. No less
than thirty-fve students of Cornell
are said to be willing to go out as
foreign missionaries this year.
A STUDENT at Vanderbilt University,
Ia Tennessee has beaten the worlds
record in high kicking, having reached
with his big toe the unprecedented
height of nine feet three and g. hal
inches.
THERE is g. handsome young man in
Athens, Ca, who has courted every
young lady living on his street.
There is lively competition among the
candy dealers and soda fountain men
to secure his custom.
ABE BRADFORD, of Parkersburg,
W. Va, lost the power OF speech eight
years ago, but found it again the
other day when his mules baked, and
lust when he wanted it more than
ever before in his life.
OUR college should keep g. careful
register of the houors it throws round
go loosely and often iniudiciously as
to make the world laugh, and then it
will escape the error ofgiving the same
title twice to one man. Lancaster
Examiner.
THE first mail between Boston and
New York was established In 1878,
'sfor q more speedy intelligence and
dispatch of affairs" The letters
were to be carried by g. messenger,
who was directed to go and return
once q month.
THERE must be some place in the
world where people stay at home, but
it is not in this country. When
Southern people 60 North to visit
their friends they find their friends
gone away for the summer New
Orleans Picayune.
For the last three months the
Daily Democrat has published from
twenty to thirty columns every week
of original matter prepared especially
for it by some of the best newspapers
and magazines in the United States
Dayton (Ohio) Democrat.
ALBERT, l2-year-old lad Of Sag
Harbor, daily sits down to the table
with his father and mother,
grandfather AMI grandmother, and
great grandfather and two great
grandmothers. He gets his second
piece of pie simply by asking for it.
Harper's Bazaar.
A CONCERT room Is often full OF con-
tradictions, for one will often find q
third-rate man marked ga l." an an
gry woman labeled "B g." q noble
looking man marked ''K g." and de-
pressed looking individual with al 81
on his chair. The Office must be more
careful in sorting the audience Mus
ical Herald.
WEnever knew OF anybody that was
hurt by ripe watermelon and never
saw anybody that could point out
any person who was willing to say
that he ever knew or heard any one
remark that ne knew of a PERSONS be-
ing cognizant of any ones being
harmed by ripe watermelon.-S Spring.
field Union.
A SUPPOSED widow who keeps swell
boarding house In Washington has
had supposed bachelor boarder for
twelve or fifteen years past, and it
mas luSC UG0u OlSCOVCIcO OueO UuO UWO
are husband and wife, having been
married in 1873, in Baltimore. Fur
ther developments will be in order
and are expected.
DEATH by lightning often furnishes
some rare and valuable curiosities for
the dime museums. In the pocket OF
Texas negro so killed were found
two horseshoe magnets, two copper
cents that had melted together, g.
nickel that had partly melted and
stuck to his watch, and the nickel
rim around his money purse was also
melted.
THERE is one thing that is unique
about Providence among cities OF the
United States. Not one other munic-
ipality of half its size or Importance
can boast that its geographical center
is occupied by a marsh worth some
thing ike 81 100000 and utilized
for the production Of mosquitoes,